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Pricing and licensing

Work in progress

Commercial pricing details for the FedMS SaaS offering are being finalized. This page captures what is fixed today; tier-specific pricing and the public order flow will be added before general availability.

Delivery options

FedMS is available in three delivery modes:

LakeDrops runs your FedMS instance for you. We handle:

  • Hosting (EU-based by default, other regions on request),
  • Daily backups and disaster recovery,
  • Security monitoring and patching,
  • Drupal and FedMS upgrades (automated, with smoke tests on every upgrade against a copy of your live database),
  • Helpdesk and technical support.

You focus on running your business. This is the path most customers take.

2. Self-hosted under support

You run FedMS on your own infrastructure (or your preferred cloud provider). LakeDrops provides:

  • Installation and onboarding,
  • Access to the private Composer registry for the FedMS components,
  • Helpdesk and technical support,
  • Optional managed upgrades.

Suitable for organizations with their own DevOps team and a clear preference for owning the infrastructure.

3. Self-hosted, no support

FedMS is GPL-2.0-or-later. You can take the code and run it yourself without any commercial relationship with LakeDrops. You do not get access to the private Composer registry; you compose your installation from the public source repositories at gitlab.lakedrops.com/fedms. You are on your own for operations, support, and upgrades.

Licensing

The framework — the install profile, the seven component modules, the ECA models, the recipes, and the test suites — is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0-or-later).

The full text of the license is available at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html.

Drupal core and the contributed modules FedMS depends on are also GPL-2.0-or-later. There is no proprietary component in the FedMS framework.

Tiers (planned)

The SaaS offering is expected to be priced in tiers based on:

  • Number of events per year,
  • Number of active members,
  • Storage,
  • Optional recipes / integrations (Zoom, video recording, e-mail templates, etc.).

A free tier with a hard cap on events and members may be offered to support evaluation and small in-house deployments.

What is included in every tier

Regardless of tier, every customer gets:

  • The full framework (install profile + seven modules),
  • The baseline ECA models,
  • The Drupal multilingual stack (English + German shipped, more on request),
  • The Gin admin theme and the Olivero front-end theme,
  • The Playwright smoke-test suite running daily against your instance,
  • Helpdesk integration (for paid tiers).

Premium tiers add the optional recipes, federation between multiple instances, custom domains, and dedicated support SLAs.

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